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US abandons police reform accords sought over deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor
- The U.S. Justice Department abandoned efforts on May 21, 2025, to secure police reform settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville related to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor's deaths.
- The decision followed a review by current leadership, reversing prior findings of systemic racial rights violations despite protests and court-approved consent decrees.
- Minneapolis continues to operate under a state consent decree stemming from a 2023 settlement mandating court-supervised reforms to address racial discrimination in policing.
- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon stated that over 100 attorneys demoted or resigned rather than pursue consent decrees, claiming such decrees remove local control and have anti-police bias.
- The Justice Department's withdrawal raises legal experts' concerns that police accountability efforts since George Floyd's 2020 murder could be severely undermined nationwide.
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5 years after George Floyd's death, US drops policing investigations
The Trump administration is abandoning federal oversight of policing reforms initiated after George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. Officials said local efforts can achieve the same goals of holding officers accountable for excessive use of force or racially motivated policing. However, some of the cities investigated by the Biden administration want federal monitoring to continue. They vowed to continue on the…
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Ben Crump Rip’s Trump Administrations Decision To End Police Reform Agreement Reached In Wake Of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor
Source: Anadolu / Getty Famed civil attorney Ben Crump has weighed in on the MAGA-fied U.S. Department of Justice’s recent decision to end Biden-era police-accountability agreements with Minneapolis and Louisville that came as a result of extensive investigations following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. It’s the latest decision made by the DOJ’s civil rights division that indicates the Trump administration‘s intent to ha…
DOJ Drops Oversight of Minneapolis and Louisville Cops Ahead of Anniversary of George Floyd’s Murder
The Justice Department is dismissing police reform and oversight agreements in Minneapolis and Louisville just days ahead of the fifth anniversary of the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The consent decrees came in response to Floyd’s murder, as well as the Louisville police killing of Breonna Taylor on March 13, 2020, after federal investigations found patterns of unconstitutional and racist policing practices in bo…
'We’re doing it anyway': Minneapolis bucks Trump DOJ’s directive on police reform
Leaders of the city of Minneapolis say they’re staying the course for police reform despite White House plans to abandon oversight of police violence.MPR Reports Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said the reforms will continue regardless of a Department of Justice motion to dismiss department improvements.“We’re doing it anyway,” Frey said. “We will implement every reform outlined in the consent decree — because accountability isn’t optional. Our ind…
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